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Tenure and Gender
… A tenure review, normally among the most discreet of Harvard procedures, erupted into loud, … history with women's promotions, so I shouldn't be surprised by what happened." In keeping with the confidentiality …
Lessons from Libya?
… In the spring of 2007, this magazine published a brief news item observing that “Lawrence University Professor Michael Porter, perhaps the world’s preeminent corporate strategist, is advising the …
Issue: July-August 2011
Joseph P. Kalt
… Joseph P. Kalt Photograph by Stu Rosner Home the night before from Australia, where his expertise in the economics of antitrust and regulation in the natural-resource sector was wanted, Joseph Kalt is full of beans, geniality, and patience, despite the wildly …
Issue: May-June 2002
Online-Education Updates
… Four years after Harvard and MIT launched edX, their online-course venture, in May 2012, MIT scholars have … A Catalyst for Higher Education Reforms,” a review of the field. Its lead authors—Karen Willcox, professor of aeronautics and astronautics, and Sanjay Sarma, …
Issue: November-December 2016
Literary Gardening
… settings such as ponds or meadows or woodlands—very unlike the geometric, clipped formality of French or Italian gardens. “I must congratulate you—you’ve built an English garden outside of England,” observed an elderly British visitor a few years …
Issue: July-August 2013
Allston Deliberations
… Having hired a team of consultants and engineers one year ago to assess the University's existing real estate assets in Allston, as well as the infrastructure needs of a future campus across the river, Harvard's leaders are …
Issue: September-October 2003
Alvin E. Roth, Lloyd Shapley ’44 Share Nobel Prize in Economics
… Alvin E. Roth and Lloyd Shapley '44 were awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science on Monday . The … work for which they were recognized focuses on the design of markets and matching theory: how people and companies … Read his blogs here and here . Roth, currently Gund professor of economics and business administration , with dual …
Vaccine for Tooth Decay
… For most of the twentieth century, the only way dentists could treat cavities was to "drill and … squirted into the nostrils in the first few years of a child's life? Harvard Medical School faculty members …
Issue: January-February 2002
An American Zen Master at Harvard
… and his Dharma heir was Richard Dudley Baker '58. Once at the hot core of the counterculture, the Zen Center acquired prestige, … Then an apocalyptic sex scandal in 1983 saw Baker accused of abusing his power and spiritual authority. In a …
Issue: November-December 2001
Fall Sports Championships
… Field Hockey The stickwomen (11-7, 6-1 Ivy) won a share (with Penn) of their first Ivy title since 1991. The Crimson's 3-1 … in scoring with 41 points, was named Ivy League Player of the Year. Women's Volleyball For the first time in …
Issue: January-February 2005
Short and Sweet
… W hen Lawrence S. Bacow was elected the University’s twenty-ninth president in February 2018 , … Corporation—on which he had served since 2011—and the Board of Overseers were confident that they had chosen the right … separating commercial development of the 36-acre enterprise research campus facing the Business School across …
Issue: July-August 2023
Not Our Year
… In the middle of the second quarter of the 134th playing of The Game, heavily …
Issue: January-February 2018
Young Bernstein in Boston
… The leaders of a spring seminar and fall exhibit and … on Leonard Bernstein ’39 seek firsthand information about the musician in his hometown (into the early 1950s). … willing to be interviewed are asked to contact Mason professor of music Carol J. Oja (617-495-3791; coja@ …
Issue: March-April 2006
A Familiar Tale, Told With Style
… Those in search of summer beach reading might pick up The Romantics , a new novel by Galt Niederhoffer ’97. According to Janet Maslin of the New York Times , …
Arts and Sciences: Better Budget, Burgeoning Ambitions
… annual report for fiscal year 2012 —previewed with Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) colleagues at their October 2 meeting and published two days … programs with faculty members, in the sciences ( PRISE, the Program for Research in Science and Engineering ; …